Prompt #109 A professor realises a student's mystery stories mirror real missing persons cases in town and the newest one points to them. ****** A record-breaking winter shuts down Massachusetts. Classes move online. Roads ice over. And people begin to disappear. Emma Remington studies narrative ethics at an elite college where crime is discussed as theory. Her professor encourages all students to be creative. Emma delivers until her writing starts aligning too closely with real events unfolding beyond campus. What begins as an academic exercise becomes something else entirely. As missing persons cases multiply and the storm isolates the town, Emma is forced to confront a question she's spent her life avoiding: when does observation become complicity? And what happens when the wrong person is paying attention?